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November 2012

November 08, 2012

A Call to Humility and Repentance

My buddy Derek wrote a post yesterday about how it's not inappopriate for Christians to either mourn or celebrate...

November 05, 2012

A prayer for peace and integrity at the polls

Lord, we take many things for granted in our country, but the fact that we...

November 05, 2012

A review of my election-related blog posts

I thought I I would share a share a summary of the blog posts that...

November 02, 2012

This is my Father's world (a rap for Emily)

I wrote a rap version of "This is my Father's world" in 2009 for the...

November 02, 2012

My book: I need your help

It's time to start writing my first book. As many of you know, I had...

November 02, 2012

Re-Membering the Dismembered Body of Christ

November 01, 2012

Biblical Womanhood: What Kathy Keller missed

I'm not sure how long the manilla package sat in the bin beside my desk....

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Reformation Day & Augustine’s hermeneutical standard of love

When the Reformation happened in the 1500's, there were very different assumptions in place about...

October 30, 2012

Kingdom Politics: Sewing the Great Commandment Back Together

Early 21st century American politics presents a unique historical context for Christian contemplation because the...

October 29, 2012

Sheep, Goats, and Hurricanes

It occurs to me as I'm waiting for what seems like just a lot of...

October 28, 2012

Pleasantville Christianity vs. Kingdom Christianity

This weekend, I preached on the text of the parable of talents. My regular readers...

October 26, 2012

Why Al Mohler doesn’t get Rachel Held Evans

So Rachel Held Evans is apparently becoming this year's Rob Bell. She's written a book...

October 26, 2012

How children save us

Over the past several years, as I've gone through the ordination process, I have had...

October 25, 2012

Call to confession

October 24, 2012

Richard Mourdock: misogyny, poor taste, or bad theology?

"I struggled with it for a long time, but then I came to realize that...

October 24, 2012

Ten types of people I want to lose in the election

I've been trying so hard to avoid alienating people I love and care about by...

October 23, 2012

Integrity, zeal, and patience (Psalm 25:21)

Sometimes God impregnates a single verse with rich and explosive meaning that is completely applicable...

October 23, 2012

Strength vs. integrity: a Biblical response to the presidential debate

What I learned from last night's final presidential debate (which was the first one I...

October 22, 2012

A dream, a thank-you, and a favor to ask…

This is an appeal from the Election Day Communion folks that I wanted to blast...

October 22, 2012

What would you have done in Libya?

One of the things that makes me hot in watching politics is when one politician...

October 20, 2012

Conversation with a None in the sauna

"This seems like a great place to meditate," he said. I usually don't talk to...

October 19, 2012

Dinesh D’Souza and the revelation of God’s wrath

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth" (1 Cor 13:6). That...

October 17, 2012

God’s wrath as a cosmic spiritual immune system

My reformed brother Derek Rishmawy and I have been having a stimulating discussion about the...

October 17, 2012

God's wrath as a cosmic spiritual immune system

My reformed brother Derek Rishmawy and I have been having a stimulating discussion about the...

October 17, 2012

10 songs in 2 days on the Goodson Chapel piano

I had a bit of a creative explosion this week while I was attending the...

October 16, 2012

Legion (The American Exorcism): a rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vrdgp_Ebts&feature=youtu.be About a month ago, I wrote a blog post about a phenomenon I'm witnessing...

October 15, 2012

Garden Walls (a reappropriated love song about prevenient grace)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQh6eISTpHM&feature=youtu.be In 1999, I wrote a sonnet while sitting on a couch at a party...

October 15, 2012

Wisdom from Henri de Lubac, part 2

I have been reading off and on through Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac's Paradoxes of...

October 15, 2012

Everything I have belongs to You (a song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEte6_Si_4&feature=youtu.be This is the first song that I've written in two years. It's basically about...

October 14, 2012

Communion or correctness? The underlying question.

Is God's goal for humanity communion or correctness? The way you answer that question will...

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